Legal History

The democratic legal system created by the Athenians was completely controlled by ordinary citizens, with no judges, lawyers, or jurists involved. ...

Good Judgment, based upon the author's experience as a lawyer, law professor, and judge, explores the role of the judge and the art of judging. Eng...

After the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime, pueblo representatives sent hundreds of petitions to Pres. Francisco I. Madero, demanding that the exec...

Examining the widespread phenomenon of human trafficking in Vietnam during the period of French colonial rule, this book focuses on the practice of...

Do we have the law we deserve?Has justice improved for the victim, the accused and society?What even is justice?Joseph is a natural storyteller.. b...

From the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, Canada was in a state of ongoing political crisis. Within this thirty-year period, David R. Cameron was a...

This third volume of Essays in the History of Canadian Law presents thoroughly researched, original essays in Nova Scotian legal history. An introd...

Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe o...

In this absorbing narrative, Barry E.C. Boothman traces the history of Abitibi Power & Paper Limited alongside the rise and fall of the newspri...

A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 18...

In 1880 the federal Parliament of Canada repealed the Insolvent Act of 1875, leaving debtor-creditor matters to be regulated by the provinces. Almo...

In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. People from all classes frequently used litigation and its use i...

In Christopher Moores lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canadas most influential co...

Reinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the fi...

This new edition of Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions includes all of the major Supreme Court decisions on abortion since the 1960sas well as m...

A wide-ranging intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement, drawing from personal accounts, academic works, and the media. The Rise...

The principle of non-intervention is one of the most venerable principles of international law. Although not expressly mentioned in the Charter of ...

A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written ...

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a chil...

Jimmy Hoffa, acquitted in a Nashville court during the Test Fleet case, was under investigation for jury tampering and subsequently tried and convi...

An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely...

The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history. Yet records from ...

John C. Domino examines the origins and development of the right to privacy in Texas, beginning at a time when the states courts had not yet recogn...

The Vikings are well-known for their violent raids and pillage, but they also had a well-organised system for political decision-making, legal case...

The United States Constitution was established primarily because of the widely recognized failures of its predecessor, the Articles of Confederatio...

This is the first institutional history of Scotland's 18th-century civil court and its legal community. 18th-century Edinburgh owed much to the men...

Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how ...

Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how ...

The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) In 1982, the Supreme Court of the United States ...

For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskeys classic work on the Supreme Courts role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generati...